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Friday, August 12, 2022

12 Aug. 2022


Please go to 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊 for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it! That site wa available from 6:00 pm (Mountain Time) yesterday.

You may also find a printable version at the A𝖗k𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖙-𝕲𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊 , from about ~11 pm (MT) yesterday.
A color interactive version is available from 3 am (MT) today at the 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊

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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.

20 comments:

CanadianEh! said...

I’ll open today ( although WC posted his results last night.
Wordle 419 4/6*

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CanadianEh! said...

Ach! My poem disappeared.
What could have been offensive?
I’ll try to remember it again.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Maybe Owen would like us to separate our posts according to topic.
“Offensive” may simply have been a poor choice of words. I’m sorry, CanadianEh! if you have been caught up in this. We welcome your poems!
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

Mow Down Number(s)”
(of gourds)

Arrows through gourds are
gen’rally winners. Decode
it how you prefer.
~ OMK

Misty said...

"Great Cook"

Carol was assured
she could decode that recipe with a gourd.
Her skills were sharp as an arrow
and not a tiny bit narrow.
Her cooking did never blunder,
since she grew her own crops down under.
And so her Thanksgiving dinner
was once again a first-class winner.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Wordle 419 Hint:
A verb and a noun; two syllables, three consonants, one of which is repeated; to call something a thing, or a paper attached to an object
Par = 3
Wordle 419 1/6

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~ OMK

Misty said...

So great to see you both this morning, CanadianEh! and Ol' Man Keith. Hope you can re-post your poem, CE, and I look forward to your Wordle hints, OMK, which I always need and appreciate to produce my response. Also interesting that there seem to have been arrows shot into that gourd.

Looking forward to a cheerful and productive day, with everyone checking in.

Ol' Man Keith said...

An enjoyable verse, Misty!

I could visualize Carol busy in her kitchen, prepping her candied sweet gourds!
Does she brine her wallaby?
She must manage her oven time well—between breast of Roo and her roast echidna.
Delightful!
~ OMK

Misty said...

Woohoo! I got the Wordle on my first try, thanks to your very helpful hint, OMK--many thanks.

Wordle 419 1/6

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Misty said...

My goodness, the things you learn on this blog. Had to look up wallaby and echidna, of course, and it turns out they are Australian critters, including the platypus, koala, kangaroo, emu, and more. No, I'd rather not have any of them for supper, although you're welcome to enjoy Carol's meal, OMK.

Ol' Man Keith said...

WooHoo! Thanksgiving at Carol’s!
I think we’ll skip it this year.
I believe some—or all—of the courses are protected species.
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

OMK- I think Owen wants us to separate our posts by topic so that if a post does get removed (by him or the blog AI), we will not have lost too much. I only lost my poem today , since my Wordle was posted separately. And I suppose, if somebody did not want to look at my Wordle, they could move on to my next post.
Plus, there seems to be some sort of advantage to having a larger number of comments posted daily. Erhaps Owen can enlighten us.

I’m still not sure how the AI decoded my garden gourds to be offensive!

CanadianEh! said...

OMK- your arrows through gourds reminds me of William Tell shooting the apple off his son’s head.

Misty- great poem about Carol from down under. I don’t know if they celebrate Thanksgiving in October like Canadians, or in November like Americans.

CanadianEh! said...

Ok, I LIUed. Thanksgiving in Australia is on the last Wednesday in November.
We can book our tickets to visit Carol.
Maybe Chet and Lois will be on honeymoon there at the same time and join us!?

And this will make 14 posts here today as of now!

CanadianEh! said...
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CanadianEh! said...


I just posted my offering for today for the fourth time. It is gone again.
You will have to decode it from cyberspace! LOL!

(Maybe it was that bad!)

Misty said...

CandianEh!, so sorry your poem was deleted again--I had been looking forward to it,

Thank you for your kind response to my verse, and for checking into those Thanksgiving dates. I just looked on my calendar, and this year's Thanksgiving is listed on the last Thursday in November. That makes sense, I suppose, because the leftovers can they be served on the weekend and save the poor mothers from having to cook all over again.

Yes, it would be wonderful if we could all get together for Thanksgiving. Hey, we could do it virtually right here on the blog! Well, sort of. At least giving thanks for belonging to such a sweet community whose members we can visit every day! A lot to be thankful for.

Ol' Man Keith said...

I am now more eager than ever to see your poem, CEh!
Nothing renders an item so desirable as having it marked “Forbidden”!
Or “Offensive.”
And not just once, but four times.. Gads, what might you have written?!

I have never had an item removed here, and it has happened only once (for me) over on the Corner. In that case, I knew CC objected to a political statement.

As for who actually does the censoring, I wonder.
CEh!, I think you may be mistaken, attributing the deletions to AI. If you take another look at Owen’s first “advice” to me yesterday, he wrote in the first person “I” when he spoke of having to delete something.
I gather from his words that he does any deleting.
Or, if AI is involved, he may approve or give the go-ahead.

I can’t be sure, because his brief notes did not address all my questions.
The site is his creation, and I don’t want to do him any injustice. I hope he will be up to addressing all these matters.
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

I have had posts disappear from this site fairly often.
At first, I thought I had not completed sending it, but I started taking more care in completing. Today, I have tried about six times (once I even completed the “I’m not a robot” box to see if that helped). Within a minute, they were gone. I don’t think Owen is monitoring the site that closely - it must be some kind of AI.
But for the life of me, I can’t see anything in my poem that would trigger AI.
Maybe they think I am a Canadian spy LOL!

Wilbur Charles said...

Traveling and meeting family. When I finally got a few minutes I got wrapped up in today's xword a typical devious Saturday

WC